{"slug": "bahrain-ai-law-policy-updates", "title": "Bahrain — AI Law & Policy Updates", "summary": "Bahrain has no artificial-intelligence-specific law, according to a review of the national Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission register at lloc.gov.bh, which found that none of the 139 instruments enumerated and 103 read in full text mention AI, algorithms, machine learning, or automated decision-making. The Personal Data Protection Authority's 11 executive decisions under Personal Data Protection Law No. 30 of 2018 also lack such references, leaving the 2018 data protection law as the primary binding framework for AI deployers.", "body_md": "قانون رقم (30) لسنة 2018 بإصدار قانون حماية البيانات الشخصية — Personal Data Protection Law No. 30 of 2018 · القرارات التنفيذية لهيئة حماية البيانات الشخصية — the 11 executive decisions issued under Law 30/2018 — **Status: No AI-specific instrument — measured across the whole national legislation register**\n\nBahrain has no artificial-intelligence law, and that is a measured finding rather than a gap in this corpus. The national Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission register at lloc.gov.bh was read across all 24 of its categories: 139 instruments enumerated, 103 read in full text, and none of them names artificial intelligence, an algorithm, machine learning or automated decision-making. Separately, the Personal Data Protection Authority publishes 11 executive decisions under Law 30/2018 — covering data protection officers, data subject rights, technical measures, the complaints procedure, sensitive-data processing, cross-border transfer, criminal-case data, public registers, the notification procedure and auditor fees — and none of those names AI, automated decision-making or profiling either. ⚠️ Those 11 decisions appear in NO part of the national legislation register: a statute book and a regulator's implementing decisions are different surfaces, and reading only the first would have missed the whole regulation layer. What binds an AI deployer in Bahrain is therefore قانون رقم (30) لسنة 2018, the Personal Data Protection Law, together with those decisions. This reading is re-asked weekly against a control term — instrument K3018, the Personal Data Protection Law itself — so that if Bahrain enacts an AI act, the absence recorded here stops being served as though it were current.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bahrain-ai-law-policy-updates", "canonical_source": "https://ai-law-tracker.com/global/bahrain", "published_at": "2026-09-03 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-03 21:24:58.134132+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy"], "entities": ["Bahrain", "Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission", "Personal Data Protection Authority", "Personal Data Protection Law No. 30 of 2018"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bahrain-ai-law-policy-updates", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bahrain-ai-law-policy-updates.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bahrain-ai-law-policy-updates.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/bahrain-ai-law-policy-updates.jsonld"}}